Style Court

6.01.2011

Ripped

Now, one of my connections. In Gail Levin's book, Lee Krasner: A Biography, she writes that during Krasner's first Friday morning after-class critique, teacher Hans Hofmann took Krasner's drawing and tore the lower part of it into pieces, reassembling the bits to convey a way she might achieve something more dynamic. Levin goes on to wonder if Hofmann's bold methods "unintentionally suggested the possibility of collage to Krasner."

Today when I was looking at Lulu de Kwiatkowski's cotton-linen print, Colors, I thought of the various scenes about ripping and collage described in the biography.